Marché des Fleurs

This guide to the Marché des Fleurs in Casablanca traces how a corner of Rue Normandie became the city's newest flower market in May two thousand twenty-four, even though nothing about it is really new. It follows the flower sellers who had spread buckets of roses on a patch of ground in Maarif for close to a century, and the city planners who wanted that land back for a park, and the trade the commune struck to move families and stems just a few blocks over in only three days. Listen for the hammering under the flower calls as new signs go up on sixteen shopfronts.